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Honored last week at a House banquet were Alan L. Goldman and Peter J. Frederick as the outstanding seniors in Kirkland House sports throughout the year...
...making, man-eating industry began in 1859 when Edwin L. Drake, a sickly, bearded failure of a man in a stovepipe hat, brought in the nation's first commercial oil well near Titusville, Pa. Though Discoverer Drake wound up virtually penniless and forgotten, his find opened the scramble for oil across the land...
Arrogant and superstitious, Harry Sinclair liked to drill in cemeteries or places where blackjacks grew, created a $700 million empire.* Haroldson L. Hunt, who now commands a $600 million empire, was a professional gambler, writes Author Knowles, who got started in oil with an Arkansas lease that he won in a poker game, struck a 15-million-bbl. field in Louisiana after a poker-playing pal had a dream that it contained...
...been trying to help us has something happen to them." Perjurers, crackpots and self-seekers erupted from the woodwork; religious animosities blossomed. Through it all, Aimee followed her code: "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister!" She got surprising backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken. With Maryland gallantry he summed up the case: Aimee was accused of immorality and, when she denied it, prosecuted. No Maryland court or jury would ever behave so caddishly to a lady, Mencken said, and with heavy irony: "Unless I err grievously, our Heavenly Father is with...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, praised the decision to start working drawings. "We have been waiting 24 years to obtain adequate facilities for the University...